Acupuncture, Expertise and Cross-Cultural Medicine
Alternative medicine is a fifty billion dollar per year industry. But is it all nonsense? The Whole Story rounds up the latest evidence on the placebo effect, the randomized control trial, personalized genetic medicine, acupuncture, homeopathy, osteopathy and more. It reaches a provocative conclusio...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Palgrave Macmillan UK
2000, 2000
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| Series: | Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Alternative medicine is a fifty billion dollar per year industry. But is it all nonsense? The Whole Story rounds up the latest evidence on the placebo effect, the randomized control trial, personalized genetic medicine, acupuncture, homeopathy, osteopathy and more. It reaches a provocative conclusion: alternative therapies' whole-body approach might be just what medicine really needs right now to help crack the tough, chronic conditions seemingly untouched by the revolutions of surgery, antiseptics, antibiotics, vaccines and molecular biology |
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| Physical Description: | XI, 263 p online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780230287518 |